subjective complement
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of subjective complement
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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Such a noun is in the nominative case, and is called a predicate nominative, or a subjective complement; as, Noun: Mr. Brown is the manager.
From Project Gutenberg
He thus adds to the mass M of mundane phenomena, independent of his subjectivity, the subjective complement x, which makes of the whole an utterly black picture illumined by no gleam of good.
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